Years ago Tom also used the *official XSEED* Twitter account to pick fights with people who questioned the use of trans slurs in Akiba’s Trip. He also openly mocked people who were upset about it in reply chains with followers of said official account.

I agree. If anything they could have maybe wrote it in a way that would be easier for Americans to parse, but I don’t like the idea of overly Americanizing a game about Japanese high school...

I think the thing that particularly bothers me about the implication that this question shouldn’t be in this version of a game, a game about a Japanese teen going to Japanese high school in Tokyo, you actually at one point meet a (pro?) shogi player who will teach it to you. So shogi absolutely fits in to this. I mean…

Radfems do absolutely exist, they are usually transphobic and tend to do more harm against other women (and trans men + nonbinary folk) than cis men to be honest. But they don’t exist in the way that many cis men think they do, the way that people say they are castrating media and censoring everyone. Usually they are…

I never said he was being malicious, doesn’t make what he did any less hurtful. Acknowledge that and be better next time, don’t double down.

It’s frustrating that a good cause marathon gets overshadowed by bad press, but at the same time, the marathon has a duty to be inclusive to everyone. There are a lot more trans and queer runners than people realize, and this all comes after multiple GDQs in a row with weird shit and people doing things like…

I recall a previous GDQ featuring a late night streamer talking about shooting up the place and committing suicide because his run was going poorly. It was a thing.

Something people need to remember (people reading this comment, not the writer) before trashing shippers is that for a lot of us it’s a way to deal with the fact that quite frankly queer/trans people are ignored by media unless we are a gimmick or a novelty. So shipping is a way to sort of make up for that.

This is easily the most offensive thread in this entire comment section.

Y’all angry boys realize that the angrier you get, the more you fuel Gita to write about fandom right?

Then why did you read it?

Hot take: this comment is garbage.

It’s almost as if gay people have to ship characters as gay just to get gay pairings and it effects you ZERO PERCENT.

They aren’t real, bud. We aren’t “forcing” them to do ANYTHING.

What if they are canon and it’s just because they wanted them to be? Because of representation?

But portmanteaus are so fun!

I love you, Gita.

But you’re not doing it... a fictional animal is???

Meanwhile I didn’t see anyone upset about the cross-dressing Pikachu in ORAS! Cosplay Pikachu dressed masculinely to match a male trainer... but was a girl! But the reverse is a no-no?

I actually opted not to choose Fennekin cause I thought Delphox looked horrible...